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Re:Google Loses Most US Search Share Since 2009 While Yahoo ... by blueskin_ on Thursday January 08, 2015 @05:08AM (#8855751)
Well, you used to be able to use "sofa" with google, which would exclude 'couch' etc. but then they killed that. Still works with other search engines.
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Re:Google Loses Most US Search Share Since 2009 While Yahoo ... by jpatokal on Thursday January 08, 2015 @06:45AM (#8855959)
sofa -couch still works. Also, verbatim mode: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/142143?hl=en
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Re:Google Loses Most US Search Share Since 2009 While Yahoo ... by Dylan16807 on Thursday January 08, 2015 @11:06AM (#8856971)
Won't sofa -couch exclude pages that have both words?
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